Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure ...

A new study reversed transplant rejection twice, uncovering the reasons for transplant rejection on a cellular level ...

Three studies published in one of the most respected medical journals paint a vivid picture of how ultra-processed foods are ...

Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts. Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts.

At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed ...

The discovery that fat is a communicative organ with a role in everything from bone health to mood is forcing a rethink of ...

In a successful transplant in a man with brain death, scientists prevented the immune system from attacking a genetically ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), leads to asymptomatic or mild symptoms in most cases. However, in a significant ...